CANNIBAL CORPSE and BEHEMOTH will join forces beginning on January 28th in New Orleans, Louisiana at the House Of Blues for a month-long winter live takeover.

Both bands are touring in support of their most recent and massively successful albums. CANNIBAL CORPSE released their thirteenth album, A Skeletal Domain, on September 16th and debuted at #32 on the Billboard Top 200. BEHEMOTH‘s critically-adored tenth album, The Satanist, entered the Billboard Top 200 at #34 after its release on February 4th of this year.

Combining both bands’ headlining sets into one touring package promises to make this the must see metal tour of 2015! Support will come from two of Sweden’s finest metal exports: Aeon and Tribulation. Premium packages for the tour will include a meet-and-greet with both CANNIBAL CORPSE and BEHEMOTH, an exclusive t-shirt, early entry into the show, an exclusive screen-printed poster, and a VIP laminate. For further info, scroll on over to THIS LOCATION.

Sweden’s AEON released Aeons Black in 2012 via Metal Blade Records and toured as part of the Summer Slaughter Tour in 2013. This will be the band’s first time returning to North America since. Tribulation, who also hails from Sweden, released the critically acclaimed and lengthy 75-minute The Formulas Of Death, in 2013 on Invictus Productions.

London based death metal newcomers ABHORRENT DECIMATION have announced they are working with Ronnie Björnström of Enhanced Audio Productions (Garageland Studios, Sweden) on the bands highly anticipated debut album.

Following the success of the bands debut EP ‘Infected Celestial Utopia’ via Cold Birth Records, numerous shows across the UK including a tour with Hour of Penance and a crushing performance at this years Bloodstock Open Air Festival the band are delighted to share this news.

Vocalist Ashley Scott had this to say on the appointment of Ronnie, “Ronnie is responsible for one my favourite sounding records of all time! The first time I heard Aeon ‘Aeons Black’, I knew we had to get in touch with Ronnie about the album. I would not settle for anything less. We spent a little time talking about the goal and what we wanted to achieve with this record and it was clear to me that Ronnie was able to give us exactly what we wanted. Our EP was a great start but now is the time to step everything up, material, production, direction – this album has to put our name on the map and we are positive Ronnie is the man for job.”

Ronnie shared these words on the upcoming task ahead of him, “Abhorrent Decimation is a great band. It will be a fun project to work on for sure! We have had close contact to figure what direction we should aim for… It will be a killer album when it’s done. Ashley sent me the demo’s, the material was like I expected. Aggressive, punchy and overkill! I had to take a couple of beers after listening to it due to all the brutality in the tracks!”.

Ronnie has created incredible sounding records for the likes of Aeon, Zonaria, Gnawer, Bodyfarm and Persuader to name a few.

Watch below ‘A Putrid Vision’ Taken From ‘Infected Celestial Utopia’

The band has attracted the support from many of the big names in the UK press and overseas with support coming in from Metal Hammer, Terrorizer, The Guardian, Team Rock, Total Rock, MetalMouth, PlanetMosh to name a few, the album is set to be a well received Death Metal offering.

Metal Blade Records has reported that Sweden’s AEON are pleased to announce that they have recruited a new guitar player and it is none less than Ronnie Björnström who produced the band’s latest release, Aeons Black. “We are all very exited about this and we say welcome to Ronnie. We’re looking forward to fans seeing us live with Ronnie and hope to be back to the US some point this year.”

Ronnie added, “Having worked with the band for over four years as their Front of House tech and producing their latest album, I know AEON is one of the best death metal bands out there. It is an honor for me to be sharing stage with the guys. See you all on the road! Cheers!”

The band is currently supporting their latest release Aeons Black, which included touring in Europe in addition to a coveted spot on the Summer Slaughter Tour that made its way through North America this past summer with The Dillinger Escape Plan, Animals As Leaders, Cattle Decapitation, Norma Jean, and The Ocean to name a few. 2013’s Summer Slaughter Tour marked AEON’s first tour in North America and it was a major success for the band who made several new fans from coast to coast. So much so that the band’s Facebook “Likes” jumped from 21,000 to over 46,000, more than doubling where they were at when the tour started.

Recorded at Empire Studio in Östersund, Sweden, engineered, mixed and mastered by Ronnie Björnström at Garageland Studios, Aeons Black has been reaping praise from critics domestically and abroad. Revolver Magazine calls Aeons Black “one of the best death metal albums of 2012,”The Metal Review dubs it the band’s “heaviest and most brutal album to date,”All Music Guide commends AEON’s fiery brand of “…punishing, blood-curdling, Christ-baiting death metal…” while About.com crowns it, “a ferocious beast and is a thoroughly awesome death metal album.”The Metal Observer tags the 50-minute long monster, “a masterpiece of goddamned death metal,” while Infernal Masquerade adds, “if you are in the market for some crushing neck-breaking death metal, this is one release you don’t want to miss. AEON is at the top of their game and they have more than proved it on Aeons Black.”

As reported last week, guitarist and co-songwriter Daniel Dlimi has decided to leave Sweden’s AEON after 12 years with the band.

Aeon has just issued the following update: “Ok folks. Since some people are asking us if we will continue as a band or not after Daniel’s departure, let’s make it clear that we will continue to spread our dark music. We always knew that this point in our career would come. When we would be asked to tour more and more, but the touring does not cover the loss of income from our day jobs….and it is a very difficult point. With this band we do get paid, we just have to cut on our losses. But the rest of us still wanna give it a try!! We still have faith that there is a need for some true death metal in this world!! THE FIRE STILL BURNS!!!!

We will also be looking for a replacement for Daniel of course. More info on this will come soon. And we just got started working on our next album….how about that folks???”

Guitarist and co-songwriter Daniel Dlimi has decided to leave Sweden’s AEON after 12 years with the band.

Says Daniel: “It’s with a heavy heart that i finally have decided to call it quits. Why?!? I simply can’t afford to do this any more. To tour with a band of our size, you actually lose money on each and every tour. For us, the expenses are always higher than the income, and if that wasn’t enough, I also need to take time of from my daytime job which means absolutely no income at all during the period of a tour, plus the extra expenses I get from the tour that does not get covered by the tour-income. You see where this is going?

We have done four tours this year alone and each one of them have made us lose money. I have actually NEVER done a single tour and made a single dime at the end of the day. I am actually paying money to do shows for you guys. And the saddest thing about this is that the industry expects you to do so. Something must be seriously fucked up when for example the driver, the sound guy, the merch guy, the tour manager, etc. makes more money on a tour compared to bands on the bill that are not headlining?!?

The one thing I love doing the most with my band is actually being on stage performing for you guys. But my passion for the music simply won’t pay my bills. And as we all know, the record industry is suffering as hell and the record sales are lower then ever. So the only way to grow your band bigger is to do new albums and tour like hell… If you are lucky enough, one day you will be at a level where you actually get paid for you job. And like I said, i can’t afford doing all the tours required to maybe one day be a big enough name to do headline tours and actually make money out of it.

Neither do I see an option to stay with Aeon and only record albums since the reward for me with doing an album is to actually perform the songs on stage. And if i can’t do that, there is simply no point for me to go on.

So with this being said, I am now leaving the world as a “professional” musician. Because you are considered to be a professional musician if you have released four albums world wide and toured Europe, US, and Japan right?!? It’s ironic in many ways… It’s pure charity.

A big thanks from me to all the fans that have been supporting us through the years, Metal Blade Records for being a super professional label and not least, all the crazy and awesome guys in all the bands we have had the honor to toured with. Cheers!!!!”

“Arttu (Malkki; drums) has decided to take a brake from Aeon. He and his girlfriend are expecting twins in march and he wants to focus on his family at this point. We have no idea on how long this break will be, but there is no need to worry. We have an awesome drummer on our hands (Emil Wiksten) that will be replacing Arttu to 100%. This means that we will be touring as planned and take on more tours along the way. So please lets welcome the mighty Emil Wiksten as the current drummer of Aeon. His first stage appearance with Aeon will be on January 16th in London at Garage. To have a sneak peak on his insane drumming, check out this drum cam video from one of our rehearsals the other day.”

Celebrating a decade of progressive Death Metal, German OBSCURA will be heading out for a nine-date tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland in March of 2013.

The Swedish Satanic Death Metal outfit AEON will be acting as direct support to the headliner. Comments the band: “It will be awesome to do this tour with Obscura, and with our newly released album “Aeons Black” we are now stronger than ever with a killer live set that will leave no venue and crowd intact. Expect nothing else but pure fucking death metal!”

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The opener on the run will be Munich progressive Death Metal hopefuls OVER YOUR THRESHOLD who comment on their first tour as follows: “We feel honoured to be a part of the “A Decade Of Progressive Death Metal” Tour and also are very excited to present all songs of our recently released debut album “Facticity” to you people. There are plenty of stages we´ve never entered before, and all the more we are looking forward to share them with such stunning bands like OBSCURA, DEADBORN and our label-mates of AEON. This is a mandatory happening for all the metal heads who are into tech death metal! See you on tour!”

AEON just released their latest album Aeons Black three weeks ago. Check out some audio from the album, a whole bunch of video material from the recordings and order your album copy at http://www.metalblade.com/aeon

OVER YOUR THERSHOLD released their debut Facticity in August through Metal Blade Records. Check out album trailers and music at http://www.metalblade.com/overyourthreshold/. At the same link you can purchase your copy of the album!